Our designs add not just beauty, but entirely new environments. Sustainable designs intertwine individual needs, community benefits and environmental stewardship. Our multi-functional designs add to your home value, create soothing spaces, and can even produce fresh fruits and vegetables for your family. Once established, they require less maintenance while creating wildlife habitat and soothing living spaces. You won’t believe what your backyard can do.

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Walkways, walls and patios are essential in the residential landscape – they are how we access and use the space. Pathways direct flow through the landscape, patios provide spaces for outdoor dining and entertaining, and garden walls allow us to reduce erosion and adjust grades to better utilize the space. The hardscaping is also an opportunity to add texture and design elements to the landscape – backdrops, boulders, curves drawing the eye, texture and contrast from wood, gravel, flagstone or the patina of coreten steel all add to the appeal of a space. While we do plenty of standard paver and flagstone walkways, we also are able to utilize more creative materials and design ideas. We install dry-laid hardscaping (pavers, bricks, flagstone), dry stack walls (block, stacked stone, boulders) under 36″, stepping stones, wooden walls and walkways, gravel, boulders and steel coreten. From a standard rectangular techo-bloc patio to reclaimed brick to inlaid flagstone – we have the expertise and experience to design and properly install your built landscape spaces.

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While lawns are great for play space and recreation, the reality is that far too many spaces in our developed landscapes are left as lawn. There is a great opportunity to transition these spaces – hard to mow slopes, large expanses of lawn that just get mowed and never used, or where grass doesn’t grow well – into beautiful and ecologically beneficial spaces. When these spaces are planted with pollinator friendly plants, it is amazing at how much life shows up – birds, bees, butterflies. The space comes alive with color and energy, and humans love them as well. The allure of these spaces is clear: we seek out hikes in the woods and through the meadows of our nature preserves, visits to local gardens (Chanticleer,  Stoneleigh, Calder Gardens, or one of our many arboretums) to find peace and recharge. Creating these spaces at home not only contributes to the matrix of habitat for struggling species, it also adds positively to the daily life of the people who live there and get to enjoy the seasonal rhythms of the garden. When considering that lawn care contributes so much pollution to our spaces – herbicides and pesticides running into our rivers and streams, sound and air pollution from mowers and blowers, the appeal of lawn transition becomes clear.

We work with you to create a custom design that will work with your site and personal taste. The first step is to set up a time to meet and take a look at the property. We ask that you take some time to think about what style you are looking for, to find some photos of landscapes that appeal to you, and think about your budget (as it can determine scope, style and materials). On the day of the appointment, you will meet with one of our design consultants who will walk though the property and together will come up with ideas and an outline of what you are looking for. If it seems like we are a good fit, we generally put together a custom design with visualizations and pricing in 1-2 weeks. In  most cases we create a photoshop of your house, but we can also create 3-D models if appropriate. These are conceptual representations that help give you an idea of the outcome. Once you have seen the proposal, we work with you to make any revisions necessary to get it just right. If you decide to move forward with the installation, we set a start date, take a deposit, and then show up to install the landscape. During the install process, our project managers will stay in touch with you through the process to make sure that each piece of the project is being put in exactly how you would like it. After we finish, we close out and then provide a 1 year warranty for all of our plants, and are available to answer any questions or concerns down the line.

Landscape projects are highly variable in price. For example, if your goal is to create a sitting area, you can put in a flagstone patio or a pea gravel patio or even just wood chips. A pea gravel patio is 1/4 of the cost of flagstone, and wood chips are about half the cost of pea gravel, but all three create a place to sit. This variability continues throughout any project – the size of gardens, amount of hardscaping, number of plants – they all impact the price of the project. In the realm of gardens – the largest thing affecting price is the total size of the garden, but we can also choose between plugs or pots, for meadows we can do seed mixes, and we can adjust the planting density. For pathways, we can put in a formal flagstone walkway that may run $10k, or we can put in a series of stepping stones that may cost a couple thousand.

In general, we can work with you to fit your budget by making design choices. We have a $6k job size minimum, and our projects generally range from $6k up to $150k, and within that there are many options we can discuss and help you narrow things down.

We also offer financing with monthly payment plants through Wisetack